Michael Bay, best known for blockbusters like Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, has walked away unscathed after a man attacked the director with an air conditioning unit on the set of the forthcoming Transformers sequel in Hong Kong.

Despite initial reports that he was injured, Bay managed to duck out of the way of his attacker, who was allegedly under the influence of some kind of narcotic. Paramount Pictures said the “bizarre encounter” came after the assailant had accosted other crew members.

“The director ducked and wrestled the air conditioner from his attacker, preventing what could have been a serious accident,” the studio said in a statement to Deadline.

The Transformers films are pretty terrible, but that’s taking your dislike of a director to a whole new level.

Security intervened and nobody was injured, the studio said, and three men were ultimately arrested. Two of the suspects may have been brothers and one faces blackmail charges after allegedly demanding a payment of HK$100,000 (about $13,200 Cdn) from the director.

The cast and crew, unfortunately, were able to keep filming, so expect Bay to maintain his steady output of racist robot movies for the foreseeable future.